There’s no denying that 2020 has been a difficult year and, according to Americans surveyed by Pew Research Center recently, social media isn’t helping. Pew said 64% of respondents believe social media has a mostly negative effect on the way things are currently going in the country, with roughly one-quarter saying those platforms have neither…
Challenges aren’t just for TikTok anymore, as a host of celebrities took to Instagram Reels as part of the #RunwayToThePolls challenge, aimed at driving people to vote early and from home. The #RunwayToThePolls challenge was spearheaded by I am a voter, in partnership with the Black in Fashion Council and the Council of Fashion Designers…
Despite what often seems like a one-man crusade by Republican President Donald Trump to tilt the balance, a new study from Pew Research Center found that Twitter is dominated by the Democrats. Pew analyzed the Twitter activity of 3,518 U.S. adults with public accounts whose Twitter activity could be matched to their survey responses, including…
For many years, conventional marketing wisdom held that brands should steer clear of political issues. The reasoning was simple enough: What company could afford to alienate a single customer by taking a position on something controversial? But as the socially conscious millennial generation has taken its place as a $1.4 trillion spending bloc, there’s been…
With Election Day less than three weeks away, early voting is currently underway in about 20 U.S. states. In one of many campaigns urging voters to set aside time to get to the polls during the early voting window–which generally means shorter lines and less congestion at polling locations–Brooklyn-based IPG agency Huge rolled out a…
As Election Day draws nearer, Instagram said the Voting Information Center it unveiled in August has been visited by over 35 million people. The Voting Information Center gives users one place to register to vote, confirm their registration status, make plans to vote and get whatever information they need prior to Election Day. Instagram also…
Key Insight: Twitch is emerging as an important platform for some GOTV organizations. In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, several major social media platforms threw their hands up and said they wouldn’t take political advertising. While these companies are sticking to that promise, a handful of them are making exceptions for ads that…
Pakistan’s telecommunications regulator ordered providers to block the popular social media app TikTok on Friday due to the company’s inability to remove “immoral” and “indecent” content. In a statement, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said it gave TikTok “considerable time to respond and comply” with its instructions to moderate “unlawful online content” but said the…
Election season is known to be a particularly heavy fundraising time of year. Candidates, PACs and nonprofits send emails, make phone calls and text us. For many of us, it becomes white noise, until you see something that stands out–which is Aidy Bryant. SNL’s Aidy Bryant took a creative approach to helping a candidate from…
Joe Biden became perhaps the most prominent voice in the Twitter chatter around Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate with a bit of trolling about the fly that lingered in Vice President Mike Pence’s hair. The former vice president and current presidential candidate was far from the only one to notice that a fly spent a…
“I’m speaking.” What kind of time are we living in when a woman in power speaking has to repetitively ask a man to stop interrupting her? Sad to say, we are still living it. Women on social cheered, twitter memes went viral and GIF’s were already circulating–all in support of Sen. Kamala Harris during Wednesday’s…
Facebook will temporarily halt all political ads on its platform after the polls close on election night in the U.S. The company previously said new political ads had to be bought more than a week prior to the election, but did not specify the policy after polls closed. Facebook said today that ads are an…
Twitter shared its plans for the vice presidential debate Wednesday night, during which incumbent Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) will go head-to-head. The debate will be livestreamed on Twitter, free-of-charge, available at the top of many users’ timelines or through the social network’s 2020 U.S. Election Hub. Users can request a push alert…
Lawn signs are one of the most reliable and impactful staples of an election. Over the years in presidential elections, there have been some iconic designs that political junkies associate with specific candidates. In a new campaign, echoing one of the most crucial issues of our time, the names of those killed through police brutality…
The bald eagle has always been a complicated icon of the United States. Ben Franklin famously referred to it as a “bird of bad moral character” due to its nature as a scavenger that would take food from other predators because the eagle is “too lazy to fish for himself.” But Franklin’s judgmental anthropomorphizing aside,…
After tonight’s vice presidential debate ends, Starz will be making a political statement of its own. The premium cable network has purchased its first-ever debate ad, to promote its limited series, The Spanish Princess, with a charged message aimed at viewers: “Fight Like a Woman.” That’s the name of the spot and the tagline for…
President Donald Trump is back at the White House, plans to hit the campaign trail again soon and fully intends to participate in the second presidential debate set for next Thursday, two weeks after he was diagnosed with Covid-19. The president’s diagnosis and how Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s campaign continues to respond to it, will…
If you wrote a script about this year’s catastrophes–a global pandemic, murder hornet invasion in Washington and California, Oregon’s wildfire devastation–no one would believe it. But if you turn those unprecedented events into a hair-raising remake of the iconic slasher flick Scream, now you have people’s attention. That’s what sports journalist and TV host Rachel…
Antitrust watchdogs in the U.S. House of Representatives issued a report today proclaiming that Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook have abused their market power and called for government intervention. While these companies have delivered “clear benefits to society,” it has “come at a price,” legislators wrote. “To put it simply, companies that once were scrappy,…
YouTube debuted YouChoose 2020, a series of interactive videos related to the 2020 U.S. election. The YouTube Originals series allows viewers to start with a single introductory video, and then watch separate videos focused on different elements of the voting process. These extra videos have different YouTube meme themes (like cooking, dancing, and auto repair),…
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